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Top 20 Software Startup Investors in Costa Rica in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Software startups based in Costa rica. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Costa rica. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Software Startup Investors in Costa Rica in January 2026

Investor	Software Costa Rica investments
Carao Ventures	4
Roberto Souviron	1
Felipe Villamarin	1
NFX	1
AU21 Capital	1
Cluster Capital	1
Fabian Gomez Gutierrez	1
NXTP Ventures	1
BitScale	1
Collab+Currency	1
Broom Ventures	1
Epakon Capital	1
Andres Bilbao	1
NDRC	1
Lightspeed Venture Partners	1
Matias Woloski	1
Caricaco VC	1
devlabs	1
Dadneo	1
Metaverse Ventures	1

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They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Costa Rica, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Futura Labs — Futura Labs is a digital dental lab modernizing clinics with tech-driven orthodontics and prosthetics across Latin America.
Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance

Roberto Souviron is a Founder at Win Win Ventures. Roberto attended Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business.

Investment focus

Operating Systems, Financial Services
Seed
Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.

Investment focus

Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Colombia, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
C4c7us — Optimize your Project's Infrastructure in Minutes - Optimize the management of your IT infrastructure with our platform, offering an agile, secure, and scalable solution. Gain greater control over your technological resources and maximize your savings.
fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
NeuronX — NeuronX Protocol is the pioneering decentralized lending protocol on Dfinity, setting the stage for smart DeFi. By focusing on AI-driven automation and enhanced user experiences, NeuronX aims to revolutionize the DeFi landscape and appeal to a broader audience. At the core of NeuronX is a groundbreaking innovation: AI-Powered Smart LiquidityPlatforms (AILPs). These AILPs are advanced vault strategies operated by intelligent AI algorithms. Users can effortlessly gain leverage by simply depositing a base asset. Behind the scenes, AILPs leverage AI to automate complex transactions and continuously rebalance positions, ensuring optimal leverage without the risk of liquidation. This integration of AI streamlines the process, making advanced financial strategies accessible and hassle-free.
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shadow War — Shadow War is a 5v5 competitive PvP action game for PC and Console. Fight online in a futuristic cyberpunk world
Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
Mavryk Dynamics — Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi).

Founder & CEO of Frubana. Former Rappi Expansion Leader. Former McKinsey consultant.

Investment focus

Information Technology, B2B, Beauty
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.
Luzid — Luzid is a Software Development firm offering AI based developer's automation tools for enterprise implementation processes.
Openlayer — Our platform automates model inventory, risk classification, and compliance workflows, while applying 100+ behavioral tests to detect issues like hallucinations, bias, PII leakage, and toxicity.

BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NPC Labs — NPC Labs is a core contributor to B3 - a Base gaming ecosystem
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

Broom Ventures invests in extraordinary pre-seed and seed-stage founders. We sweep the floors to help early stage technology companies achieve their full potential.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Sytrex — We automate, optimize, and enhance various operational processes. This includes tasks such as document processing, fraud detection, customer support, risk assessment, compliance monitoring, and transaction management. By integrating AI into these workflows, institutions can reduce manual effort, increase processing speed, and improve accuracy,resulting in more efficient operations and better customer experiences.
Brick — Brick is an AI-powered platform for automating fraud prevention and underwriting, giving businesses full control over risk analysis.
Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.

Epakon Capital is a high growth, early-stage (pre-seed to seed) venture capital fund investing in category-defining businesses across emerging markets. For founders, by founders.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Venezuela, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
UnshETH — unshETH is a decentralized, on-chain movement to use incentive engineering to preserve and protect the trustless, immutable, and censorship-resistant nature of Ethereum.
Reforged Labs — The world's first AI copilot for mobile game marketers. AI-powered research and insights to help creative teams improve ROAS by moving faster and testing smarter.

Andres Bilbao

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Suno — Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration.
Landed — LANDED makes hiring top-notch candidates onto your team effortless.
Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Argentina, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
Keycard — Build and deploy secure AI agents with Keycard. Our unified identity infrastructure delivers real-time access control, compliance, and trust for the agent-native world.
Luzid — Luzid is a Software Development firm offering AI based developer's automation tools for enterprise implementation processes.

CARICACO is a startup powerhouse. We support the best entrepreneurs in Central America with capital, mentors and connections. We seek to be the bridge that connects early stage startups with new markets and the best investment funds/accelerators.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Banking
Pre-Seed
Costa Rica, El Salvador

Portfolio highlights

Avify — Avify es el CRM para WhatsApp que conecta todo tu negocio a tus conversaciones y automatiza ventas.
Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
Vitrinnea — Vitrinnea is the first full service marketplace in Central America powered by re-injecting used garments back into the market. Our goal is to make shopping for fashion accessible, fun and sustainable. We offer clothing, footwear and accessories at the best price with the best user experience.

We target the global pipeline of outlier entrepreneurs building B2B digital companies that are currently undervalued and looking to grow by partnering with founder friendly investors that can help them reach more customers, build a better product and raise capital in a relatively short period of time.With Oakland, California as a base in SiliconValley, we currently invest via:- LatAm Seed Fund: Pre-Seed up to Series A startups, primarily in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) scaling up globally. Typically invest an initial 50-100k USD, then follow-on up to 500k from this fund.- Global Fund: Seed to Series B startups scaling across the Americas, Africa with more than 1MM in ARR.We are open to leading or joining rounds, co-investments, and follow-on syndicates (SPVs).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Chile, Peru, Ecuador

Portfolio highlights

Soyio — La plataforma modular para cumplir con la ley de datos personales
ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.

Dadneo enhances the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation by connecting early-stage startups with the venture capital LatAm industry. Through their investment model using Smart Capital, they offer their entrepreneurs disposition of their network and all necessary measures to contribute to the success of their project tools.Dadneo wasestablished in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

Investment focus

Service Industry, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Chile, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Slik — Slik es la plataforma para medir, analizar y accionar la Experiencia y Compromiso del Empleado en tiempo real.
Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
Wheel the World — Wheel the World is a social startup with the purpose of making the world accessible. By building a cutting-edge model of accessibility data, which is extracted, organized, and displayed on www.gowheeltheworld.com, we allow people with disabilities to find and book accessible travel experiences including hotels, tours, and activities with theaccessibility information they need in the most amazing destinations in the world.We believe that people with disabilities should experience the world like anyone else. Governments, travel companies, and tourism professionals are all joining the accessible travel movement given the exponential growth of people with disabilities traveling around the world. Our commitment is to provide detailed information about what is accessible and specialized customer support involved through the entire experience.An accessible destination is a combination of accessible accommodation, transportation, and activities. This is why we are partnering with local travel businesses creating 100% accessible services together that we offer online. We want to allow millions of people to travel to thousands of destinations!

Metaverse Ventures invests in companies that are building products and services for Decentraland and the decentralized metaverse.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Blockchain
Series A, Funding Round
Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
Decentral Games — We build games that reward you to play. Play, earn, and scale your own metaverse guild. ICE Poker beta is now live.

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